Sentence examples for capable of emotion from inspiring English sources

And they all are capable of emotion; for example — and this is as enraging as it is saddening — in e-mails in which they decide they are not, as originally planned, going to tell child-protective authorities about how an assistant coach saw Sandusky sexually abusing a child in a university locker-room shower, they manage to form a pleased circle of self-congratulation.

We anthropomorphize machines in terms of "intelligence," imagining that there could be a consciousness at work in the computer or the robot, but we are less able to imagine a machine consciousness capable of emotion, which is felt to be more deeply human than reason.

Mihara never considered making the androids capable of emotion, wishing for the narrative to center on the human characters.

Listen, I'm just like you: I have blood in my veins and hope in my heart and the profound suspicion that Jeremy Corbyn is less a man capable of emotion and more a sort of long-ignored stray dog, a Borzoi looked over by so many people at the rehoming kennels that it learned to stand on two legs and sometimes wear a waistcoat and care about workers' rights.

Although there are philosophers of mind, like Daniel Dennett and Thomas Nagel, who also consider whether animals are capable of emotions or reason, love and emotional dependence — most especially the love of animals — are still seen as too feminine, too lightweight, to be serious philosophical issues.

But studies show that they are just as capable of emotions as their patients are.

I can think of no member of the current team capable of such emotion, such combative pride.

Only humans, he believed, have souls, so animals are no more capable of higher emotion than a clock.

This is not to deny that some dogs are very clever or that they are capable of feeling emotion deeply.

Her prose, described by the novelist Mary Gordon as "extremely dense; her structure is an intricately connected web of associations," was nonetheless capable of aching emotion.

As a result, Ms Yerbabuena notes that flamenco today is "going through a transition phase, with some very good performers, but few artists capable of communicating emotion".